Out of the Dust is a first-of-its-kind mobile classroom & educational outreach designed to educate Utah’s homeless using top-tier mental health, addiction recovery & holistic life-skills, and includes peer-mentoring to teach skills & behaviors that lead to long-term success and stability. It is also an effort to tell their collective stories in fair & meaningful ways that can dispel myth, reduce fear, and give them a voice at the public table.
This site also seeks to educate the public & policymakers concerning thecauses of homelessnessand why so many struggle with mental health & addiction issues. It includes a Community Resources page and Homeless Resource Fair linkto help them navigate the Wasatch Front and locate statewide services. *It also offers a custom Self-Help libraryas part of their mental health journey to recovery.
This site is the result of 18 months of interviews, service projects, and learning where gaps exist, and designed to helpshift perceptions & interactions between the public, policymakers, and those living on the streets, as well as, helping those most marginalized & vulnerable to have a second chance in life with an educational “hand-up”instead of an ongoing resource “hand-out.” Changed thinking leads to changed outcomes.
Our desire is to locate free venues in or near current shelters to teach full-life wellness principles that lead to personal growth, sustainable change, and supplement traditional resource distribution currently offered.
